Coins, Currency & American History

About Coins, Currency & American History

America was not built in a straight line. It was built through arguments about power, money, and trust. This podcast tells the story of the United States through the forces that shaped it beneath the surface: currency, credit, debt, and the systems people argued over long before the outcomes were clear. Instead of memorizing dates and battles, we follow the economic and political choices that quietly defined who benefited, who paid the price, and why the nation developed the way it did. From the fight between Hamilton and Jefferson, to the rise and fall of early national banks, to gold rushes that turned frontiers into financial centers, each episode explores how Americans tried to turn ideals into institutions. How paper promises competed with hard money. How regional economies grew apart even as the country claimed unity. And how decisions made in moments of uncertainty echoed for generations. This is not a story about heroes or villains. It’s a story about systems, incentives, and unintended consequences. The series moves from the founding era to the modern age, showing how debates over money and power never really ended, only changed form. Every crisis, boom, panic, and reform is part of the same ongoing argument about who controls value and what a nation owes its people. If you want to understand why America works the way it does today, you have to understand how it learned to pay its bills, trust its currency, and fight over who held the keys. This is American history, told through the economics that made it real.

Publisher

Littleton Coin Company

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Jan 2026

Latest episode

25 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

35 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Sept 2026

   Ep. 35 – America's 250th and Semiquincentennial Coinage

   Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, the United States Mint told the story of America’s journey to liberty on the nation’s coinage. Dual dates, new designs and special privy marks… even unexpected production errors. For collectors, the result is a rich, one-year series that rewards close study. For the wider public it is a reminder of America’s founding principles. The coins of 2026 stand as both historical markers and living currency – tangible link...

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   11 Sept 2026

   Ep. 34 – Fiat Currency Backed by the Future

   For most of American history, silver or gold stood behind the coins and currency notes people used every day. That link stretched back to the Coinage Act of 1792 and survived, in changing forms, until the early 1970s. But in August of 1971, the final formal connection to gold ended. From that point forward, the United States dollar rested on something less tangible and more continuous: the combination of the productive capacity of the American economy… the government’s power to tax… an...

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   21 Aug 2026

   Ep. 33 – Cryptocurrencies Challenge the Fiat System

   The autumn of 2008 felt unsettled. Bear Stearns had collapsed in March. In September, the fall of Lehman Brothers triggered a full-blown financial crisis. The government scrambled to enact emergency measures. For many, confidence in traditional financial institutions was shaken. Then, on October 31, 2008, a short, nine-page document was published titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” And it described a new form of electronic money – one that would operate without bank...

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